Table 3.

Simulated Effects of Genome Coverage

Fold coverage Average contig length (kb)
0.50.85
11.0
21.5
44.8
617.7
865.8
10226

[i] All simulation parameters other than fold coverage were set to default values (see Table 2). Average contig length excluded those contigs consisting of only single reads. The single-read contigs comprised only ∼0.1% of all reads.